Outdoors Music

[NAD]

Alright so I think a lot of us know what sounds good in a haunted forest in the middle of winter, but what about other outdoor locales during the various times of year?

Ulver - Perdition City
This is by far the greatest album to hear in the middle of the night... in the desert. Yes, it sounds like a rainy metropolis, but trust me, I listened to it once in the middle of nowhere in the desert and everything came into place.

Agalloch - The Mantle
This album practically smells like Autumn, I want to walk amongst falling leaves while hearing this, like that "gay" forest that Black Winter Day posted awhile back.

 

[Demonspell]

While the image of falling leaves definitely fits, the "gay forest" thing seems to conflict with the atmosphere of the album...maybe because of the lack of color in the album's booklet.

 

[JayKeeley]

You know, this is a really tough thread. Most outdoors music I know reminds of forests (both gay and straight, heh) and snowy Nordic mountains.

But I'm trying to think of music that would remind of the city. I keep thinking of "Crosstown Traffic" by Jimi Hendrix (that is so unbelievably NYC), and something from OK Computer by Radiohead. City music should have a slight industrial vibe to it - perhaps something by Nine Inch Nails?

By the way, for desert music, I would recommend Nockturnal Mortem ("Lunar Poetry"). I just think it would work really well in the desert. Also, I would suggest Orphaned Land. Man, when you're in the desert, this shit will transport you to Mount friggin' Sinai - and it's not ambient, it's death/doom from the darkest pits of Constantinople.

 

[HarmonyDies....]

Anything by Strapping Young Lad = JAPAN!!!1 (Although I have not been there yet, I'm pretty sure that is the soundtrack.)



That's all I can think of right now

 

[NAD]

The Ulver Silence EPs are great for the city, Perdition City works good too, it just happens to sound better in the desert.

Nine Inch Nails is good for somewhere disturbing, like driving through the middle of nowhere in pitch black on an unfamiliar and unsettling road. Also, Further Down the Spiral sounds like the soundtrack to Super Metroid.

Aye, the silver booklet for the Mantle can give the mood a distinct lack of color, but whenever I listen to that album I think Thanksgiving, and when I think Thanksgiving I think autumnul coloring.

 

[Erik]

Aye, the silver booklet for the Mantle can give the mood a distinct lack of color

Not to mention a distinct smell.

 

[Black Winter Day]

 

[Erik]

A-ha! I know your secret for finding gay forests! Both of the autumn pics you've posted have been within the first three results of a Google Image Search for "autumn!"

 

[JayKeeley]

Or if you right click and check the properties (for windows users), you discover the URL...some site in New South Wales, Australia! Who would have believed gay forests from down under.

 

[Black Winter Day]

A-ha! I know your secret for finding gay forests! Both of the autumn pics you've posted have been within the first three results of a Google Image Search for "autumn!"

als try "autumn forests" or "gay forests"

 

[NAD]

For a larf I typed in "gay forests" in Google and clicked I'm Feeling Lucky...

Wilderness Society article about John Gay. That was anti-climactic.

 

[Hell Mike]

Personally, I feel that quite a bit of the charm of walking in the woods comes from the 'silence'... No sounds but your own breath, your own footsteps, the whispering of the winds in the trees, the sound of a scared bird's flight or some wild animal's escape...

Just this weekend I got fucking scared shitless when I heard twigs snapping and sounds as if something was coming through the woods in my direction... We have wild (probably) man-eating bears around ehre, I might add, spotted exactly were I was walking (Where I usually walk).

 

[JayKeeley]

You should have spat your Snus at the bear.

 

[NAD]

Bears fear mouth cancer.

Good point though, my favorite sound to hear in the desert is a pack of coyotes on the hunt.

But you can't very well piss off the campers that got too close to your site quite like you can with Opeth blasting at 1am while pissed, right?

 

[JayKeeley]

By the way, I was listening to Eucharist's Mirrorworlds this morning, and the track "In Nakedness" creates the perfect image of a city at 4am. Just when the crowds have died out, and just before the meat, dairy, and newspaper guys come out - it's that hour of stillness...

That track is great. The album is great.

 

[Hell Mike]

Bears from norrland probably are as attracted to snus as all other creatures from here.
It is not proven(correct english?) that snus gives mouth cancer.

And no, since the closest camp site is about 10km away I unfortunately can't scare away any campers, plus noone EVER is there unless it's summer.

 

[Shakermaker]

i once had quite an atmospheric experience while walking through a nearby forest with burzum - det som en gang var playing on my discman. also nice: once, in skiing holidays, i sat on the windows, listening to ulver - bergtatt. it was snowing heavily outside and i had a perfect view on the pine forest... but it was probably untrue not to go outside
generally, i agree with sorath though - when i take a walk in the woods, i usually prefer silence (wrong expression, the woods are never "silent", but you know what i mean )

 

[Russell]

Slightly different, but Lykantropen Themes for me is the ultimate winter album. I have no idea why, but hey

 

[NAD]

That one is good for nighttime for me, any weather.

 

[HarmonyDies....]

One time I was walking in the forest down by the river, which I will take pictures of soon, and squirrel fell and almost hit my head. It is a grim forest by the way.